Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara is seeking information from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics in a probe into state government corruption.

ALBANY — Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara has begun a grand jury probe into state government corruption, sources said.

Bharara recently served a grand jury subpoena on the state ethics commission, seeking information on hundreds of complaints about public officials and lobbyists received since its creation in 2011, the sources said.

The subpoena delivered two weeks ago does not request email or communications. “It simply asks to see any allegations made against people,” the source said.

A Bharara spokesman had no comment Wednesday.

A spokesman for the Joint Commission on Public Ethics, John Milgrim, said the commission “routinely works with other law enforcement agencies on various cases, but it will not confirm or comment on any specific investigative matter.”

Created in 2011, JCOPE handles ethics complaints against the executive branch and lawmakers.

By law, much of what it does is secret. The panel cannot confirm investigations or even if they closed one without bringing charges.

Its biggest case was a finding that Assemblyman Vito Lopez routinely sexually harassed aides. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was criticized for approving a secret $103,000 taxpayer-funded settlement with two victims.

Bharara has turned up the heat on Albany after Gov. Cuomo recently pulled the plug on a governor-created anti-corruption panel.

Bharara was critical of the deal that had Cuomo pull the plug on the commission in exchange for the Legislature enacting an ethics package. Bharara complained that the 25-member commission made up of prosecutors and other legal experts was axed before completing its investigations.

The panel turned over its files to Bharara, who promised to follow any unresolved leads.